| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world |
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Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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| Contents |
Why civil war? : the politics of slavery in comparative perspective : the United States, Cuba, and Brazil / Edward B. Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson -- Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. Gleeson -- "A new expression of that entente cordiale"? : Russian-American relations and the fleet episode of 1863 / Alexander Noonan -- The Rhine River : the impact of the German states on transatlantic diplomacy / Niels Eichhorn -- Lex Talionis in the U.S. Civil War : retaliation and the limits of atrocity / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Fulfilling "the president's duty to communicate" : the Civil War and the creation of the Foreign relations of the United States series / Aaron W. Marrs -- "They had heard of emancipation and the enfranchisement of their race" : the African American colonists of Samaná, reconstruction, and the state of Santo Domingo / Christopher Wilkins -- Nurse as icon : Florence Nightingale's impact on women in the American Civil War / Jane E. Schultz -- Race, romance, and "the spectacle of unknowing" in Gone with the wind : a South African response / Lesley Marx -- Coda : roundtable on memory / O. Vernon Burton, Edmund L. Drago, W. Eric Emerson, Joseph McGill, Theodore N. Rosengarten, Amanda Foreman |
| Summary |
A collection of essays highlighting the war not only as a North American conflict but as a global one |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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HISTORY.
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United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social aspects
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War -- Causes
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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United States - General.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140219
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Political aspects
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140242
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gleeson, David T., editor, author.
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Lewis, Simon, 1960- editor.
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| LC no. |
2013036702 |
| ISBN |
9781611173260 |
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1611173264 |
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9781306576758 |
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130657675X |
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